Jasper and the Haunted House
- IMDb link: 0151106
- IMDb rating: 5.8 (148 votes) Search
- Genres: Comedy, Animation, Short
- Director: George Pal
- Cast: Alvin Childress, Glenn Leedy, 3 user, 2 critic, Carlyle Scott Chorus, Roy Glenn and others
- Release date: 23 Oct 1942
- Release year: 1942
- Runtime: 9 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: stop motion animation, 1940s, technicolor, featurette, one reeler, racial stereotype, jasper character, african american, black american stereotype, puppetoon series
Plot
Storyline
The adventures of Jasper, a gooseberry pie, a crow and a scarecrow. All four arrive at a haunted house where the pie disappears while crow and scarecrow fight over its division. They soon join Jasper in the piano when a ghost appears.
George Pal eventually became famous as the mastermind behind big-budget, wildly imaginative live-action features like Tom Thumb (1958), The Time Machine (1960) and 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964). But he drew industry esteem earlier as an innovative animator, including this entry in a successful "Puppetoon" series starring dutiful but oft-imperiled "negro" boy. Trafficking in racial stereotypes from the 1940s, the short has blackberry-pie-delivering Jasper being misled by con men into an alleged haunted house that turns out to be genuinely so. The short features terrifically colorful stop-motion animation and boogie-woogie music.
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